Letter of 27 March 1957

27 March 1957

DEEPLY MOURN PASSING DEARLY LOVED MUCH ADMIRED GREATLY GIFTED OUTSTANDING
HAND CAUSE GEORGE TOWNSHEND. HIS DEATH MORROW PUBLICATION HIS CROWNING
ACHIEVEMENT ROBS BRITISH FOLLOWERS BAHA'U'LLAH THEIR MOST DISTINGUISHED
COLLABORATOR AND FAITH ITSELF ONE ITS STOUTEST DEFENDERS. HIS STERLING
QUALITIES HIS SCHOLARSHIP HIS CHALLENGING WRITINGS HIS HIGH ECCLESIASTICAL
POSITION UNRIVALLED ANY BAHA'I WESTERN WORLD ENTITLE HIM RANK WITH THOMAS
BREAKWELL DR. ESSLEMONT ONE OF THREE LUMINARIES SHEDDING BRILLIANT LUSTRE
ANNALS IRISH ENGLISH SCOTTISH BAHA'I COMMUNITIES. HIS FEARLESS
CHAMPIONSHIP CAUSE HE LOVED SO DEARLY SERVED SO VALIANTLY CONSTITUTES
SIGNIFICANT LANDMARK BRITISH BAHA'I HISTORY. SO ENVIABLE POSITION CALLS
FOR NATIONAL TRIBUTE HIS MEMORY BY ASSEMBLED DELEGATES VISITORS
FORTHCOMING BRITISH BAHA'I CONVENTION. ASSURE RELATIVES DEEPEST LOVING
SYMPATHY GRIEVOUS LOSS. CONFIDENT HIS REWARD INESTIMABLE ABHA KINGDOM.

SHOGHI

Letter of 30 March 1957

30 March 1957

Dear Baha'i Brother:

The Beloved Guardian has directed me to write you concerning a list which
he desires, showing the languages into which the scriptures, or parts of
them have been translated.

He has the book entitled "The Gospel in Many Tongues" issued by the
British and Foreign Bible Society, the Bible House, 146 Queen Victoria
Street, London, E.C.4, (in 1948). This shows specimens of 770 languages in
which this Society has published or circulated some portion of the Gospel.

In the preface, they state "If those versions published by other agents
are included, there are now well over a thousand forms of speech
represented in the Library at Bible House".

The Guardian would like to secure a list of the additional some 300
languages into which the Gospel has been translated, referred to in this
quotation. Could you secure it for him, from the Bible Society, at the
Bible House.

Is it fair to assume this would then be all the languages, from any
source, into which the Bible or parts have been translated? Your early
advice will be appreciated.

For your information, in the list of languages into which Baha'i
literature has been translated, there are some 20, not included in the
published book of the 770 languages into which Christian Scripture has
been published, as covered by the Book.

The question is, are these 20 included in the supplementary list, which
makes the 1,000 or more into which